The Department of Defense believes coordination of spectrum sharing in the 3.5 GHz band presents an opportunity to improve spectrum sharing efforts “across the board,” said Fred Moorefield, director-spectrum, policy and programs for DOD’s Office of the Chief Information Officer, at an FCBA event Thursday night. Sharing on the 3.5 GHz band will be one of the first indications of how spectrum sharing “is going to work on this type of scale,” Moorefield said. DOD is “really trying to help” the FCC and NTIA coordinate sharing on the band, which DOD has said it will need to use for radar services for the foreseeable future, he said. DOD will reflect its willingness to cooperate when it releases its spectrum strategy Dec. 11, Moorefield said. The spectrum strategy will focus on “adaptability, flexibility, resiliency, maneuverability, technology and more spectrum sharing both ways,” he said.
The House Judiciary Committee cleared an amended version of the Innovation Act (HR-3309) Wednesday night, passing it on to the full House on a 33-5 vote. HR-3309, which would curb so-called patent litigation abuse, received unanimous Republican support, with most committee Democrats ultimately voting for it after last-minute negotiations yielded an amendment that moderated the bill’s fee-shifting provision.
The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) approved and released Thursday a report that said cybersecurity is better served by “a set of processes that continuously couple information about an evolving threat to defensive reactions and responses” rather than by instituting “a collection of static precautions.” PCAST had expected to present the report in October, but it was delayed because of the government shutdown. PCAST has previously examined cybersecurity issues through classified reports, but “there are many aspects of cybersecurity that we felt are very important to present to a larger community and are in no way classified,” said PCAST Vice Chair William Press, who co-wrote the report with Craig Mundie, a senior adviser to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. A full version of the report was not available Thursday.
The House Judiciary Committee cleared an amended version of the Innovation Act (HR-3309) Wednesday night, passing it on to the full House on a 33-5 vote. HR-3309, which would curb so-called patent litigation abuse, received unanimous Republican support, with most committee Democrats ultimately voting for it after last-minute negotiations yielded an amendment that moderated the bill’s fee-shifting provision.
The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) approved and released Thursday a report that said cybersecurity is better served by “a set of processes that continuously couple information about an evolving threat to defensive reactions and responses” rather than by instituting “a collection of static precautions.” PCAST had expected to present the report in October, but it was delayed because of the government shutdown. PCAST has previously examined cybersecurity issues through classified reports, but “there are many aspects of cybersecurity that we felt are very important to present to a larger community and are in no way classified,” said PCAST Vice Chair William Press, who co-wrote the report with Craig Mundie, a senior adviser to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. A full version of the report was not available Thursday.
The House Judiciary Committee cleared an amended version of the Innovation Act (HR-3309) Wednesday night, passing it on to the full House on a 33-5 vote. HR-3309, which would curb so-called patent litigation abuse, received unanimous Republican support, with most committee Democrats ultimately voting for it after last-minute negotiations yielded an amendment that moderated the bill’s fee-shifting provision.
The House Judiciary Committee marked up the Innovation Act Wednesday, with votes on many amendments falling largely on party lines. Ranking member John Conyers, D-Mich., and Intellectual Property Subcommittee ranking member Melvin Watt, D-N.C., as expected (CD Nov 20 p16), led opposition to HR-3309, which continued to be marked up Wednesday night. Conyers said the bill “overreacts” to real problems caused by abusive patent litigation and “would severely undermine the role of our federal judiciary in general and innovation in particular.”
The House Judiciary Committee marked up the Innovation Act Wednesday, with votes on many amendments falling largely on party lines. Ranking member John Conyers, D-Mich., and Intellectual Property Subcommittee ranking member Melvin Watt, D-N.C., as expected (WID Nov 20 p1), led opposition to HR-3309, which continued to be marked up Wednesday night. Conyers said the bill “overreacts” to real problems caused by abusive patent litigation and “would severely undermine the role of our federal judiciary in general and innovation in particular.”
There are “no easy answers” concerning an agenda item planned for the 2015 World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-15) that seeks ways to allocate additional spectrum for mobile broadband services, said FCC International Bureau Chief Mindel De La Torre Tuesday at an FCBA event. The conference Nov. 2-27, 2015, in Geneva will in part consider additional mobile service allocations and identify additional bands for International Mobile Telecommunications, the ITU standard for wireless communications, to facilitate development of terrestrial mobile broadband. “Every single band has a constituency,” De La Torre said. “There are incumbents in every single one."
Prospects for approval of the Innovation Act (HR-3309) appeared to have improved significantly ahead of a planned House Judiciary Committee markup Wednesday. Industry stakeholders told us they believe the committee was far more likely to clear the bill after committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., released a new version Monday in the form of a manager’s amendment. If Carl Horton, chairman of the Coalition for 21st Century Patent Reform’s Steering Committee, “were a betting man, absolutely I think it passes out of committee,” he said. “The only question I think is going to be how strongly."